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This issue of Radical History Review examines periodicals and other print ephemera—newspapers, literary journals, magazines, pamphlets—as crucial sites of Left, anti-imperial, and anti-colonial critical production. Revolutionary papers generated oppositional networks, critical spaces, and alternative artistic practices, linking local concerns to global revolutionary praxis.
Counter-Institutions, Counter-Politics and Counter-Cultures
Mahvish Ahmad, Koni Benson, and Hana Morgenstern propose a framework for engaging anticolonial periodicals.
Beijing Workers’ Writings in the 1989 Tiananmen Movement
Promise Li shows how Chinese workers’ handbills and posters translated economistic demands into political self-organization.
Black Internationalism, Print Culture, and Political Education in Claude McKay’s Banjo
Mae Miller-Likhethe re-reads periodicals in McKay’s 1929 novel of pan-African maritime life.
Mediodía and Popular Front Politics in 1930s Cuba
Tony Wood examines a magazine’s role in promoting a common battle against fascism, imperialism, and racism on the island.
Congress Militant: Revolutionary Paper as Political Organizer
Noor Nieftagodien reconsiders the role of a South African dissident Marxist paper in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Kōkua Hawaiʻi’s Huli Newspaper, 1971-73
Aaron Katzeman and Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick examine the role of a New Left paper in defining the island’s radical sovereignty movement.
Clandestine Issues: Tracing “Imperialism” Across Ethiopian Revolutionary Papers
Amsale Alemu traces the genealogy of anti-imperialism in revolutionary magazines of 1960s Ethiopia.
Periodicals as Digital Pedagogy: Archival Tools for Political Education
Sara Kazmi introduces the periodical as political educator in movements and in the Revolutionary Papers teaching tool initiative. This section includes introductory essays to digital tools on revolutionary papers from Namibia by Koni Benson, Asher Gamedze, and Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja; India by Areej Akhtar, Javaria Ahmad, and Sana Farrukh Khan; Chile by Pablo Alvarez and Francisco Rodriguez; Oman by Marral Shamshiri-Fard; Palestine by Thayer Hastings; Kenya by Njoki Wamai and Kimani Waweru; and on the Afro-Asian journal Lotus, by Sara Marzagora and Rafeef Ziadeh.
Front Cover: Collage by Lizzie Malcolm/Rectangle Design, 2024.
